Sentence examples for has lost competitiveness from inspiring English sources

The country has lost competitiveness since joining the euro and has experienced two lost economic decades during which growth has barely risen.

"Our structural growth rate is only 1.9%."One reason, argues Mr Chaney, is that French industry has lost competitiveness within the euro zone, and is ceding market share to freshly competitive German and even Italian firms.

Stuck in the euro, its economy has lost competitiveness.

Yet, even as the economy has lost competitiveness over the years, the PdL and its precursor, Forza Italia, have neglected reform.

Lithuania's industry has been slower to restructure than Estonia's, and it has lost competitiveness as the real exchange rate has appreciated.

With the exception of Germany, each of the countries shown has lost competitiveness because unit labor costs have risen more rapidly in those countries.

Its firms have lost competitiveness.

Both have lost competitiveness since the 1990s.

But some elements of the German economic model could be helpful for other countries that have lost competitiveness.

With the Argentine peso pegged to a strong dollar and the euro weakening, Argentine exports have lost competitiveness in Europe.

OVER THE PAST decade Europe's troubled economies have lost competitiveness against Germany, as the charts on the previous page show.